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I was like a wild wild person: Understanding feelings of anger using interpretative phenomenological analysis
Author(s) -
Eatough Virginia,
Smith Jonathan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1348/000712606x97831
Subject(s) - anger , psychology , feeling , interpretative phenomenological analysis , phenomenology (philosophy) , social psychology , qualitative analysis , emotion classification , qualitative research , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , epistemology , social science , philosophy , sociology
This paper is concerned with illuminating how emotion (anger) and emotion‐related phenomena such as feelings, thoughts and expressions appear to the individual person. In particular, it focuses on the role of feelings in emotion experience. It does this through the qualitative analysis of interview material from a single person case study using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The paper examines how the participant feels and experiences anger, the defining characteristics of anger episodes, and how the typical pattern of these episodes is disrupted by life‐changes. The findings are examined in light of phenomenological ideas and the utility of these ideas for psychology's understanding of emotion argued for.